“28 percent of Americans say they’ve already lost wages due to coronavirus: poll”
April 1, 2020
“Twenty-eight percent of those surveyed said they’d already “lost wages or other personal income.” Another 16 percent said they were laid off or furloughed from work, and an additional 28 percent said they lost what they considered a “substantial amount” from a retirement account.
The poll comes as more and more states issue an array of orders shuttering nonessential businesses, leading to a spike in layoffs particularly in industries like bars and restaurants, retail and more. More than 3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits between March 15 and March 22, a spike from the 281,000 applications for jobless benefits filed between March 8 and 14…”